Only when those invasions ceased permanently did the colonial government decide to create the state of Grão-Pará e Maranhão, independent from the rest of the country.

* 1902 – Joaquim de Sousa Andrade, Brazilian poet who designed the flag of the State of Maranhão ( b. 1833 )

* Maranhão Atlético Clube, a Brazilian football ( soccer ) club

It flows through four Brazilian states ( Goiás, Tocantins, Maranhão and Pará ) and gives its name to one of Brazil's newest states, formed in 1988 from what was until then the northern portion of Goiás.

José Sarney de Araújo Costa (; born 24 April 1930 in Pinheiro, Maranhão ) is a Brazilian lawyer, writer and politician.

In 1775 Brazilian Estados ( Brasil, Maranhão and Grão-Pará ) were unified into the Viceroyalty of Brazil, with Rio de Janeiro as capital.

* Maranhão ( BR-MA ), part of the ISO 3166-2: BR geocode for the Brazilian state

The people of Maranhão have a distinctive accent inside the common Northeastern Brazilian dialect.

It borders the Brazilian states of ( clockwise from north ) Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas and Roraima.

In 1775 all Brazilian Estados ( Brasil, Maranhão and Grão-Pará ) were unified into the Viceroyalty of Brazil, with Rio de Janeiro as capital, and the title of the king's representative was officially changed to that of Viceroy of Brazil.

* Altamira do Maranhão, a city in the Brazilian state of Maranhão

The Alcântara Launch Center () is a satellite launching base of the Brazilian Space Agency in the city of Alcântara, located on Brazil's northern Atlantic coast, in the state of Maranhão.

São Luís (, Saint Louis ) is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Maranhão.

* Timon, Maranhão, a town in the Brazilian state of Maranhão

Banco Bradesco is constantly expanding and has recently acquired Banco do Estado do Maranhão, Banco Mercantil de São Paulo, Banco Ibi S. A., and the Brazilian operations of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria ( BBVA ), J. P. Morgan Fleming Asset Management and American Express.

The various ethnic groups as Fon, Ewe, Fante, Ashanti, mine to come in Brazil, were called " djedje ", deployed here in your worship Salvador, Cachoeira and São Félix in Bahia, and São Luís of Maranhão, then spread itself to several Brazilian states.

In 1775, all Brazilian Estados ( Brasil, Maranhão and Grão-Pará ) were unified into the Viceroyalty of Brazil, with Rio de Janeiro as capital.

Having overcome the opposition Lusitanian provinces of Bahia, Maranhão and Pará, the Brazilian fleet departed for the Cisplatin, where it achieved further success.

The world hit that “ Segundo ” turned out to be, granted her in 2006, two additional Grammys Latinos – Best MPB Album and Best Brazilian Song with “ Caminho das Águas ” authored by Rodrigo Maranhão – and over 50 shows abroad, with full public and reviews acceptance in the Montreux Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, Irving Plaza ( NY ), San Francisco Jazz Festival, among others.

Júlio César Santos Correa, known as Júlio César (; born 18 November 1978 in São Luís, Maranhão ), is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Sporting Kansas City in Major League Soccer, as a central defender.

The states that formed the base of Telemar at its inception were Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, Bahia, Sergipe, Alagoas, Pernambuco, Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte, Piauí, Ceará, Maranhão, Pará, Amazonas, Amapá and Roraima, corresponding to 65 % of the Brazilian territory and 20 million households.

rightAlcântara is a Brazilian city in the state of Maranhão.

The Zona da Mata (, forest area ) is the narrow coastal plain between the Atlantic Ocean and the dry agreste and sertão regions in the northeastern Brazilian states of Maranhão, Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe and Bahia.

* January 12 – The city of Belém, Brazil is founded on the Amazon River delta by the Portuguese captain Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco, who had previously taken the city of São Luís in Maranhão from the French.

The first known European to explore Maranhão was the Spanish explorer Vicente Yáñez Pinzón in 1500, but was granted to João de Barros in 1534 as a Portuguese hereditary captaincy.

Fixation was achieved with Portuguese religious missions and banners, linking the crib to the Fort St. Louis of Maranhão, by land and sailed up the Amazon River.

However, its history starts in 1989 when the countries of Portuguese language gathered in São Luís do Maranhão in Brazil to create a base for a Portuguese language community.

The National Army headed then to the Bahia, where it attacked a convoy of Portuguese vessels consisting of more than seventy ships that went up to Maranhão.

Largely in response to the two attempts of France to conquer territory in Brazil ( the other one was named France Équinoxiale and occupied present-day São Luís, state of Maranhão ), between 1612 and 1615, the Portuguese crown decided to expand its colonization efforts in Brazil.

* Pedro Teixeira ( born in Cantanhede, unknown date, died 1640 ), a Portuguese explorer commissioned by the Portuguese governor of Maranhão, in current-day Brazil, to explore the Amazon in 1637.

Some of these popular dances were known as bate-baú, samba-corrido, samba-de-roda, samba-de-Chave and samba-de-barravento in Bahia ; coco in Ceará ; tambor-de-crioula ( or ponga ) in Maranhão ; trocada, coco-de-parelha, samba de coco and soco-travado in Pernambuco ; bambelô in Rio Grande do Norte ; partido-alto, miudinho, jongo and caxambu in Rio de Janeiro ; and samba-lenço, samba-rural, tiririca, miudinho, and jongo in São Paulo.

In 1621 Ceara, Maranhão and Pará were united and called the " Estado do Maranhao ," which was separated from the southern captaincies.

Situated in the Guajará bay, on the estuary of the Rivers Guamá River and Pará, the city began as a river port in 1616, immediately after the French were driven out of São Luís, the capital of the state of Maranhão.

In Brazil the Gê were found in Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Bahia, Piaui, Mato Grosso, Goias, Tocantins, Maranhão, and as far south as Paraguay.

Maranhão is neighbored by the ( clockwise from east ) states of Piauí, Tocantins and Pará.

Maranhão is described in books such as The Land of the Palm Trees, by Gonçalves Dias, and Casas de Pensão by Aluísio Azevedo.

The north-central and northeastern portion of the state, extending eastward into northern Piauí, is home to the Maranhão Babaçu forests, a degraded tropical moist forest ecoregion dominated by the Babaçu palm.

The flag of Maranhão was designed by the poet Joaquim de Souza Andrade, and was adopted by decree nr.

Piauí is bounded on the west by Maranhão, on the east by Ceará, Pernambuco and Bahia, and on the south by Tocantins.

The religious confrontations ( the Portuguese-Brazilian Catholicism and the Dutch Calvinism ), Portugal's restoration of the throne in 1640 and the reconquest of Maranhão in 1643, lead the Portuguese-Brazilians to undertake the 1645 uprising, led by André Vidal de Negreiros and João Fernandes Vieira.

The lower Arinos, the Alto Tapajós and the Tapajós to the last rapid, the Maranhão Grande, are a continuous series of formidable cataracts and rapids ; but from the Maranhão Grande to its mouth, about 188 miles, the river can be navigated by large vessels.

The successful expedition against 50 Frenchmen and their Indian allies was led by the Captain-Major of the Captaincy of Pernambuco, Manuel de Mascarenhas Homem, with the assistance of Jerônimo de Albuquerque Maranhão.

The stadium is owned by the Maranhão state Government, and is the home ground of Sampaio Corrêa Futebol Clube, Moto Club and Maranhão.